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Meanings of castigation in English
Catalan
andanada Spanish
reprobación Portuguese
castigo Spanish
reprimenda Synonyms
Examples for "upbraiding"
Examples for "upbraiding"
1
The letter went on for some time in the same upbraiding strain.
2
Pleyel was not the only object of my keen but unjust upbraiding.
3
His recent sullen silence was now changed to open and rebellious upbraiding.
4
M. de la Pailletine stamped and swore, upbraiding them for their cowardice.
5
The tone in which this was said had something in it of upbraiding.
1
Your brother has already given me an earful of contempt today, Tala.
2
But when these institutions fail to do so, they get an earful.
3
Dat peter-boy we meets at Quincy slips me an earful about him.
4
His race ended with Carpenter giving him an earful about safe driving.
5
He'd got an earful from someone, probably over on the lot.
1
She was bawling out of control by the time she'd finished dressing.
2
The Halle mail drove up to the door, the guard bawling out for his passenger.
3
Then he puts his slave boy to bawling out:
4
There is a fellow bawling out a ditty in the street, the burthen of which is
5
Mr. Booth was bawling out in the street.
1
I was lucky to avoid a chewing out for my late return.
2
Or are you afraid of something more serious than a chewing out?
3
General Flood looked like a football coach chewing out his team at halftime.
4
While Athena was occupied chewing out the crowd, Arachne struggled to her feet.
5
Man, she was chewing out that girl in the yellow vest something fierce.
1
Far forward sounded the cries of men dressing down the head sheets.
2
After a dressing down from Brown, Mukarji said two things to me.
3
Some day I'll give you a good dressing down for your impudence.
4
Stuff a' nonsense all this set out, dressing up and dressing down.
5
I suspect he received a severe dressing down from the politicians.
Usage of castigation in English
1
Once in a hundred years the Lord brought a castigation upon him.
2
A man could bear hate, abuse, anger, and castigation; but pity, never.
3
Oh the castigation I received from the Jockey Club on that account!
4
She had delighted in the encounter; so, in spite of castigation, had he.
5
But the pain inflicted was to disappear with the first castigation.
6
The castigation, it is said, greatly improved the future treatment of his family.
7
We are even better informed, and if we stand by we deserve castigation.
8
We have always felt that that is where the castigation should take place.
9
I settled back, knowing my own castigation was far from over.
10
Half-hearted, milk-and-water castigation, like physic, should be thrown to the dogs.
11
He took a fiercely angry pleasure in self-castigation for having wished to be happy.
12
When he attacked meanness, fraud, or vice, he was powerful, merciless in his castigation.
13
This terrible castigation of her hundred-thousand-dollar lawyer was too much for Miss Brentwood's nerves.
14
What could it be that was thus to save me from the expected castigation?
15
The castigation which followed the exploits of the greatest of these in our own time-Mr.
16
For a time he would be the grim Protestant Flagellant, pursuing the idea of self-castigation.
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Translations for castigation
Catalan
Portuguese
Castigation through the time
Castigation across language varieties
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